Lime sorbet – licensed to chill.
Lime sorbet – licensed to chill. This afternoon, a bank holiday in the UK gave a me a chance to return to a couple basics, almost staples here at Ice Cream Towers. Sometimes, plain and simple are...
View ArticleAutumn and Baked Toffee’d Apples
Autumn and Baked Toffee’d Apples Autumn greets our very own ‘Whomping Acer, a Japanese Maple tree who will soon look like a newly shorn lamb. Her beauteous flaming branches dropped bare over night....
View ArticleBig Knickers Ice Cream
Big Knickers Ice Cream and its suitable for diabetics? I start the day with Earl Grey tea in bed, dutifully and kindly provided. Then to the shower where I remonstrate at length with the deaf cellulite...
View ArticleHedgerow Pain Perdu in Apple pie order
I feel today we shall be chatting partly in the 3rd person. As some of you are aware, the mistress (I use the lingo diffidently) of the blog occasionally counsels counsel (legal counsel). She breaks...
View ArticleBitter and Twisted No Kerfuffle Chocolate Truffle Ice Cream.
Bitter and twisted, Chocolate Truffle Ice Cream – Choctober AW13. A distorting mirror is a must as a fairground attraction where an extruded face or torso amuses albeit momentarily. We return from a...
View ArticleRhapsody in blue-berry sponge pudding
This pimply faced pud is utterly divine Dharlings like an opera singers bra, soft and delicate yet flexible and supportive for when she taps into her ‘resources’. The crowd pleaser pud you seemingly...
View ArticleJust to wish you a happy new year 2014
It is with much delight, that I look down at the untidy bundle of ribbons and hand stamped brown paper which currently swaddles the sweetest little British blue kitten from whom ensues a comforting V8...
View ArticleA crepe suzette-ish fetish? Pancake stack
The cat crept into the crypt, crêped and crept out again, well I think that’s how it went, blessed with English elocution lessons via a dopey Italian Nun who spoke fractal ‘Hengleesh furthermore she...
View ArticleLilac blossom ice cream
Lilac blossom ice cream Time warped back to the 1920’s, August 1924 more precisely to the rolling countryside and quintessential Englishness of a long languorous dreamy summer afternoon tea...
View ArticleThe candied cranberry crown jewels.
This post may contain nuts. I had tried to explain, and offer, a tasting of dried cranberries to our larger than life house keeping lady, with whom language is no barrier. Since we are regular...
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